Docket+ 5 August
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Highlights
🧵Very pleased with this paper that just appeared in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications today https://t.co/edVhQ1RnMi. Superb team of authors @Sander_vdLinden @UlliEcker @NaomiOreskes @johnfocook @roozenbot and @LeeCMcIntyre 1/n
— Stephan Lewandowsky (@STWorg) August 1, 2024
In the aftermath of a mass stabbing attack in Southport UK on Monday, misinformation about the attacker's identity spread quickly on social media. ISD outlines how these false claims led to offline violence & the role social media platforms played in it ⬇️ https://t.co/MPoBslx3Cf
— Institute for Strategic Dialogue (@ISDglobal) July 31, 2024
- 2024 Paris Olympics Misinformation Tracking Center (News Guard, 29 July)
- European Commission Protection of Minors Guidelines - call for feedback (European Commission, Deadline 30 September)
- United Nations Global Principles For Information Integrity: Recommendations for Multi-stakeholder Action (UN, 2024)
- Regulation or Repression? Government Influence on Political Content Moderation in India and Thailand (CEIP, 31 July)
1. Academia & Research
1.1 Platforms & Technology
This 2023 article by @richardrogers illuminates the biases within #Google's moderation process. Religion, ethnicities, and sexualities are heavily moderated, but gendered professions & #ageism is left unaddressed. Explore his 'algorithmic probing' https://t.co/qFPokFQESM pic.twitter.com/UxjyH1vUby
— Big Data & Society (@BigDataSoc) July 31, 2024
- US Department of Justice Promises to Declassify Standard Operating Procedure for Coordinating with Social Media Platforms (Tech Policy Press, 26 July)
- Are we entering T&S’ punk rock phase? T&S professionals aren't being beaten down by layoffs and budget cuts; they're coming together and getting things done themselves. (Everything in Moderation, 29 July)
- Model Attribution in Machine-Generated Disinformation: A Domain Generalization Approach with Supervised Contrastive Learning (ArXiv, 31 July)
- How Algorithms Promote Self-Radicalization: Audit of TikTok’s Algorithm Using a Reverse Engineering Method (SAGE, 30 July)
- Kamala, Coconuts & The Impossibility Of Content Moderation At Scale (Tech Dirt, 31 July)
Availability and spread of information
- Quantifying Networked Influence: How Much Do Disinformation Spreaders’ Networks Drive Their Public Engagement Outcomes? (SAGE, 30 July)
- Strategic Misinformation Generation and Detection (SSRN, 31 July)
1.2 World News
- Inauthentic Chinese X accounts amplifying Trump shooting and Biden withdrawal conspiracy theories (DFRLab, 30 July)
- Digital propaganda is not simply propaganda in digital garb: toward an expanded theory of propaganda (Oxford Academic, 29 July)
Russia & Ukraine
The #KremlinGremlins engage in nuclear saber-rattling while pretending to want peace. Hypocrisy? Yes! But they won't hear you above their screams about heathens and Satanists at the #Paris2024Olympic. Read more #DisinfoReview and #DontBeDeceived https://t.co/RmWmw28ER1 pic.twitter.com/bHMCDjcVkY
— EUvsDisinfo (@EUvsDisinfo) August 1, 2024
- Russia’s Digital Tech Isolationism: Domestic Innovation, Digital Fragmentation, and the Kremlin’s Push to Replace Western Digital Technology (DFRLab, 29 July)
- Fringe YouTube channels promote pro-Kremlin narratives in Africa (DFRLab, 29 July)
- Elections are still battlefields for a disappointed Kremlin (EUvsDisinfo, 31 July)
- Ukraine's Information Security Resilience Amidst Contemporary Warfare: Policy Context in Development (SSRN, 24 July)